dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Centre de Recerca en Economia Industrial i Economia Pública |
dc.contributor.author |
Teruel Carrizosa, Mercedes |
dc.contributor.author |
De Wit, Gerrit |
dc.date.accessioned |
2012-02-08T15:31:13Z |
dc.date.available |
2012-02-08T15:31:13Z |
dc.date.created |
2011 |
dc.date.issued |
2011 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/179670 |
dc.format.extent |
29 p. |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2011-33 |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
L'accés als continguts d'aquest document queda condicionat a l'acceptació de les condicions d'ús establertes per la següent llicència Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.source |
RECERCAT (Dipòsit de la Recerca de Catalunya) |
dc.subject.other |
Empreses -- Creixement |
dc.subject.other |
Emprenedoria |
dc.title |
Determinants of high-growth firms:why do some countries have more high-growth firms than others? |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
dc.subject.udc |
33 - Economia |
dc.subject.udc |
65 - Gestió i organització. Administració i direcció d'empreses. Publicitat. Relacions públiques. Mitjans de comunicació de masses |
dc.embargo.terms |
cap |
dc.description.abstract |
High-growth firms have been shown to be a key factor for economic
growth and structural change. This paper analyses the determinants of
the number of high-growth firms in a country for 17 OECD countries
between 1999 and 2005, using the Amadeus data set, the GEM data set,
and others. The first contribution of this paper is that it is – as far as we
know – the first empirical analysis of high-growth firms at the country
level on the basis of actual measured growth. Second, we find indicative
empirical evidence for three driving forces of high growth, viz.
entrepreneurship, institutional settings, and opportunities for growth, all
in accordance with theory and empirical findings in related fields of
research. Third, the paper gives a tentative explanation of the
differences in the average percentage of high-growth firms between
countries. Finally, the paper gives some clues for policy makers how to
promote high-growth firms.
Keywords: high-growth firms, fast growing firms, entrepreneurship, institutional
obstacles, opportunities for growth |